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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 04, 1988
Filed:
Jul. 23, 1986
John S Kelley, Wenham, MA (US);
USM Corporation, Farmington, CT (US);
Abstract
An apparatus for automatically supplying electrical components from a series of tubular holders held in a cassette to the magazine of an electrical component assembly machine. The apparatus is carried on a channel base movable from a position with the cassette over the workstation to a position with the cassette remote from the workstation. The components are released from the cassette down a chute to the workstation, the chute having a stop member releasable when the channel base is moved to prevent the release of components from the chute. A component presence reader is located in the chute and is disposed at an acute angle to the chute vertical axis to obtain an accurate reading of the presence or absence of a component in the chute.